Okay, calm down Diogenes

there is a near endless supply of brother laser printers at thrift stores for under 15 bucks. and they come with toner carts still in them.

the last one I got from goodwill is still going strong on the toner that came with it, and its been years.

and if the toner ever does wear out, hell, I could buy 3 more printers for what the toner would cost.

also bonus that brother printers work super good in linux, least headache i’ve ever had installing a printer.

Wasnt arguing that you should get rid of them :p

Just pointing out the fact that you only care about them, ultimately, because of a very successful advertising campaign to sell more fixtures.

I mean…you are more right than you think.

Bathroom fixture manufacturers created a massive marketing/propaganda campaign around the idea of Hygiene, and the idea that its better for your health and safety, simply because they wanted to sell more fixtures…and the way to do that was to get more houses built with indoor plumbing facilities, because in the era before this… a solid chunk of the population still used outhouses, and bathed in portable tubs they filled with water heated up one pot at a time on a stove once every few weeks… if that. and because filling the tub was so much work, the whole family washed in it, without changing the water… usually the husband first, then the mother, then the kids in order of age got to bath in the bouillabaisse of mom and dads filth.

You’d be gobsmacked how many things like that are the result of marketing.

Milk being essential for bone health? Another marketing gimmick, from the dairy industry.

Diamonds are essential for proposals/weddings? Another marketing gimmick, from the diamond cartels.

and more.

I have a family member whose fridge looks like this.

Because he is an unrepentant alcoholic who sucks down vodka like a fish does water, and thinks hes being clever by hiding it in orange juice.

And hes so “clever” that he doesnt hide the recycle bin, which is always overflowing with empty vodka bottles.

I don’t deny there was some hysteria around the subject.

but given how stupid the average human is… its probably better to err on hysteria, than to err on common sense, when you need to build public awareness and support for something critical.

lots of cars too, probably. Its totally not unreasonable for a car to be on the road for 10/15/20 years.

Y2K was like the ozone.

It became a big nothing issue because of the spreading awareness, hard work, and other activities that went into preventing it.

So like I said in another post.

The problem with crisis is always the people.

If nothing happens, cause of the hard work to prevent it, people riot over it being a big waste of time cause nothing happened

if something happens, then people riot because no one worked hard to prevent it.

I doubt they’d take the average American. Wont fit in the tunnels.

Trump is more like to stir up trouble on the thought he could come in and annex the land after everyones dead/weakened.

the people problem of any crisis.

If you did nothing, and it becomes a big problem, everyone riots over why you did nothing about it.

If you raised awareness, busted ass, and prevented the issue from happening… then everyone riots over how much of a “waste” it all was since nothing happened.

Give it time, I’m sure we’ll have Vietnam 2 before long.

I have 32gb of ram.

I literally only upgraded so I could install more mods in minecraft and cities skylines 1.

Ugh.

Yeah, I’ve dealt with the whole “why does my phone make noise all the time”

“Cause you have tons of bullshit apps that arent doing anything but dinging your notifications. Let me remove them”

“No, what if I miss something?!”

“You don’t even read the fucking things!”

“but I could still miss something!”

the fact that my grandmother absolutely, hard ass refuses to do anything that would improve her situation. Just bitches and moans and has great big narcissistic pity parties until someone forces it down her fucking throat.

For example, her vision isnt great, she complaints its hard to use the computer cause she cant see to type (Shes one of those chicken peck typers). I tell her to get a large print keyboard with a backlight, it’d be easier for her to see and use.

She says no, it wont help. nothing will help. boo hoo pity me blah blah bullshit.

Long story short, it goes back and forth for a month, with her refusing the idea, refusing when I directly link her to a keyboard to buy (it was cheap, too), etc etc. Just making a big fucking woe is me pity party out of it.

I finally say fuck it, buy the goddamn keyboard myself, take it over to her house, put it on her computer.

within 5 minutes “Why didnt you tell me about this before? Its amazing! I can see it and use the computer again!”

Shes the reason i’ve been balding for 20 years.

one of my great regrets (Of a great many, I’l concede) is that I never had the opportunity to attend a lan party in my younger days… In these days of the photo.

I have always looked at this picture with a mixture of jealousy and admiration.

What’d he get, a whopper with no drink or side at Burger King?

I miss the windows XP media player that had the visualizers for music and skins and shit.

VLC is okay…but it doesnt autopopulate my CD names and tracks.

I fixed that on my grandfathers car with bailing wire, lol

How the fuck does Bundy own a palacial 2 story + basement suburban mansion on the salary of an incompetent shoe salesman in a store that gets almost no customers!